CB Fry

How come the Tour De France is, like, EVERY DAY but Charlie Austin can't play Saturday and Thursday?? HUH??????

But the Brownlee brothers can run, swim and cycle miles and miles and miles THE SAME DAY so why can't Jose Fonte play three games in a week?????? :-/ :- S :-0

The great Liverpool side survived on steak and chips and 17 pints of beer and every afternoon in the bookies so probably we should bring all that back too.

Personally will be gutted/furious if we don't send out our best possible team for essentially a knock-out match to qualify for the next stage of the Europa League. Not sure what league matches are either side but they aren't as important as this.

You got all offended when I suggested you might want to change teams the other day, now you're suggesting it to others. Interesting. PS: Ironically Dalek does support another team anyway. Well known on here as a Norwich fan on a decade-long one-gag wind up.

That's not a promise is it? If you pay attention to everything Les Reed says on this topic you'll understand what this club is trying to do. It's pretty easy to understand. But if you want to continue being outraged that a club as gigantic as Southampton Football Club is slumming it in the Mid-table of the Premier League, fill your boots.

Still in our hands.

Why should they?

This season has always been about the League Cup for me.

What are those "people" saying now, then?

When did Les Reed promise the Champions League?

That's Eric - one of the many managers/coaches that came out of that Aberdeen team - Our own Wee Gordon, Mark Mcghee and Alex Mcleish and probably some others I can't remember.

He promised Champions League now? Promised it? As a fan for the last sixty years I now understand how galling it must be for the once mighty European football mega giant you supported to be slumming it halfway up the poxy Premier League. I mean it's pretty despicable how far we have fallen from our huge continent- dominating days, isn't it? I hate Les Reed I do. Hate him and his promises.

So anything below the CL places is Mid-table mediocrity now, is it? It doesn't matter whether I think we can repeat it this season, you said mid table mediocrity is the best we can hope for when I think we've beaten that in the last two years anyway. If anything below 4th is mediocre to you then you're probably supporting the wrong football club. We are very likely to never finish fourth, so get used to it.

This makes pretty much no sense whatsoever. We had an arriviste/underdog/unexpected team at the top of our league, er, six months ago. I'm always incredibly sceptical about rants like this because I suspect you have no genuine interest in a league "anyone can win", just a league Southampton Football Club do win. If you got your wish and the current top six was Burnley, WBA, West Ham, Middlesborough, Sunderland and Stoke I seriously doubt you'd be thrilled with the level playing field of it all. You'd be moaning more than you are now.

Dortmund are far bigger, more prestigious and richer than we are and still sell through players. The likes of Porto (or Ajax, which could also be mentioned) is the small matter of, err, them being the biggest clubs in their country and playing in a league they can win, and win domestic cups fairly easily. It's not that difficult to understand is it?

The non-dinlows amongst us understood exactly what VVD's new contract was all about.

Who was that club that finished sixth last season and seventh the season before, then? Could have sworn that was us.

There's drivel and there is drivel. Seriously, well done.

That front seven of Lallana, Lambert, Pelle, Austin, Tadic, Mane and Boufal could have been immense and we'd only then need three more frontline attackers in the squad but of course our board are too small minded to invest the £50m required. Gutless.

Can you fit an entire Terry's Chocolate Orange in your mouth?

There's no evidence that SFC do this with any player. You know about Suarez a) because he had the clause and b) therefore it was communicated out by whichever party (player/agent/selling club/buying club/brokers/hangers on/etc). With every single tranfer out we've done it never, ever gets mentioned. So let's say we don't do it. Our players know we will sell when the conditions are right for us and the player. I have absolutely no doubt our stance helps us attract good players to the club.

This thread virtually writes itself. Well done everybody.

It's a forensic cross examination of absolutely nothing of substance, though. I like Andrew Neil but that was an utterly futile interview.

We've overtaken Forest and are close to Derby seemingly on the basis that they are 20 years older than us historically (ie Forest formed in 1865 not 1885) so have more "all time" to divide their total attendance between. Both those clubs have an absolute/total attendance of some 9-10m more than us. If it is really true that this is driven by solid attendances in the 1870s, fair enough, but I'm not sure. Basically I think we should go back 50 years for this kind of thing.